Anya Zvezd ina anyazve@gmail.com
Small domestic environments have fascinated me as long as I can remember, I enjoy their thoughtful use of space and emphasis on efficiency. While knowledge of basic psychology and counselling skills helps me keep my clients’ wants and needs at the centre of the design. Having over 14 years experience in customer service, I feel it is very important to do right by the client, creating ground for mutual respect and repeat business. Delivering quality and sincere service is of uttermost importance to me. - Anya Zvezdina Bachelor of Design (Interior)
Over the past three years, my clients have shown me that the right kitchen can make a difference between a good house and a truly great home - that providing a space which is easy to use and shows off their personality can transform a property. Kitchens involve a fascinating mix of necessity, function and varying aspirations, which often requires mediation and the right professional advice can make all the difference. Budget, appliance benefits, future-proofing and resale potential are all considered. When making once choice at a time, decision making becomes straight forward and fun and no project is the same.
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This London property for a solo occupant was carfully designed with the client to suit the rest of the freshly renovated flat. It was installed in close consulation with the carpenter.
Above: Modern clean cut kitchen for a retired couple in the country. North Auckland, 2014. Below: Leafy West Auckland property, for an active Russian family of four. 2014.
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“I have appreciated all the help and support you have given. You have done a wonderful job and Moda are fortunate to have you on their team.“ - Noeline
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This development was realised to very tight deadlines and was able to be wrapped up on time right before Christmas. It was later sold at the desired price and 1.3 times the prior evaluation. PHOTO CREDIT: RAY WHITE REALESTATE
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Thanks again for turning around the kitchen designs so quickly and being so proactive in the whole process. I really appreciate your adding value with your suggestions and really putting so much thought into making sure I had a kitchen that works and looks good! - Karen
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Opening a new branch for Benchmarx in the heart on London my colleague and I established our showroom as the local design centre for trades people working in the St Pancras area. I forged strong working relationships with a good group of builders took more than 50 kitchen projects from inception through to completion.
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I was responsible for realising 2 of 10 sets from plans, elevations and stylistic references provided. We were a team of 6 and we had 6 weeks for pre-production on site and shot most of the feature film in just 15 days. During production, art department team became stage hands; almost all of the sets were mobile and the rooms and their wall movements were scripted, often moving actors mid scene (pictured in black body suits on the right). DIRECTED
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Furniture has been a long term passion of mine and building something the size of the ‘Accordion Shelf’ (1800h x 1500w x 310d mm) tough me a lot which helps me better understand and appreciate what goes into fitting a kitchen. USED: RECYCLED PINE, CASTORS, HINGES,
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Philosophy of Living The only piece of furniture for which Carre-Benoit ever felt real affection was his solid oak filing cabinet. Here, at last, was something that was reliable, that could be counted on. You saw what you were looking at and you touched what you were touching. He said that they were “the foundations of the human mind.” But one day he opened the drawers to find that the maid has been using them as a place to store lentils, coffee and sugar. His reasoning cabinet had become a pantry. 1 -1 Gaston Bachelard. “The Poetics of Space.” Boston: Beacon Press, 1958. p77.
This fit out of apartment No. 24 in the Courtville building built in 1915 on Waterloo Quadrant is inspired by Jean Luc Godard’s 1967 film ‘Two or Three Things I know About Her’. The floor plan reflects one’s temptation to follow expectations of normality but at once, the desire to escape these restrictions and to take a short cut. The clusters or what can seem like mountains of cabinetry, keep their secrets but when investigated are uncovered one by one. As their potential is realised openings become apparent and what is commonly covered or neglected (in terms of construction as well as psyche) is able to be explored and rooms begin to interact with new paths between them and boundaries are undermined.
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In his film-essay Godard comments on the modern way of life, the consumerist society that has emerged since the 1950’s. It was incited by the housing developments springing up in Paris, which were built for profit rather than purpose. To call a place ‘home’ one has to acknowledge its relationship to one’s self, an interdependency. This film makes a link between the built environment and the integrity of one’s character, it is the reason I chose the Courtville apartments. They are a spectacular example of intelligent architecture sure of its character.
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Closet - a place of secrets and of transformation it is between private and public realms. What can at first appear to be an excess of storage space points out the emphasis we place on possessions, and will probably prove accurate.
A bookshelf which pivots of the wall to act as a secret door, it leads from the bedroom closet into the sitting room. A smaller shelf, hinged onto the bookshelf swings out to serve as a desk.
The reading den takes advantage of the airy sitting room with its French doors leading out to the balcony to create air circulation and create a surveillance point in the heart of the homet
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In the tiny bathroom, necessities open via unexpected means.
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Godard hoped that through the film the audience may be able to see the structures that exist in society and therefore be better placed to take advantage of them.
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Is there a psychic/mental interior? - a territory that accommodates and extends our thought processes, one that is an image of us, of our character. If there is, is it simply a reflection oft our psychological interior or an engaged exchange with environment influencing mental space and mental space interpreting environment?
While dining guests can choose to lounge on the second tier of seating (which is otherwise cabinetry) to interact with the street below. Despite the distance, the boundary between street and apartment begins to be tested this way. As the apartment dweller and guests gain an ability to gaze down onto the street, they are put on display, lit by interntal lighting they become an unlikely shop front to the pedestrians.
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